Improvement in grain tallies



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoEo GEORGE P. FITTS, OF JACKSONVILLE, OREGONi IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN'TALLIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent o. 148,358, dated March 10, 1874 application filed November 15, 1873.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE P; FTTS, of Jacksonville, in the county of Jackson and State of Oregon,- have invented a new and Improved GiainTally, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figures l and 2, respectively, represent sectional front and side elevations of my improved grailrtally.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spending parts, l

The invention will rst be fully described, 'and then pointed out in the claim.

A in the drawing represents a carriage of suitable size, which moves forward and backward on suitable guide-rails between stop-pins a a, which limit the extent of motion in either direction. The measure B, containing halt' a bushel, bushel, or other unit, is retained in position on the carriage by pegs, and placed uuder the spout of the threshing-machine, passy ing under cross-bars b for equalizing the grain a pin, d, which connects, by a spring, e, and.

pawl G, with another cog-wheel, G1, and index G2, which registers, in the usual manner, the revolutions ot' wheel E on a dial.1 H.

If halflbushel measures are used, and it is desirable to keep also a tally of the number ot' half-bushels, a second lever-wheel and dial may be employed, so that on each movement of the carriage a half-bushel is registered.

The dials c re graduated in the manner customary in registering devices, and indicate the exact number of units measured oft' from the thresher.

The attendant moves the carriage in one direction, when one measure is filled, and empties the same while the other measure is filled from the spout, nieves then the carriage back, taking oft' the second measure when full, and repeats this operation, the registering device keeping a correct tally of the grain measured off, forming thus avery convenient self-acting apparatus for counting the number otmeasures.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination, with movable carriage, ratchet, and rotating mechanism, of the levers O and pawls D G, arranged as described, and for the purpose specified.

GEORGE l. FITTS.

Witnesses C.' W. KAHLER, C. C. BEEKMAN. 

